Measured-sugar dispenser



Jan. 131. 1925.. 1,523,065

H. GESSLER MEASURED SUGAR DISPENSER Filed Jan. 22. 1924 PatentedJan. 13,1925 UNITED STATES I 1,523,065 PATENT. OFFICE.

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MEASURED-SUGAR DISPENSER.

Application filed January 22, 1924. Serial No. 687,683.

To all whom it mag concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY GEBSLER, a citizen of the United States,residing at New York city, borough of Manhattan, in the'county of NewYork and State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Measured-Sugar Dispensers, of which the following is aspeci cation. a a

This invention relates to dispensing recepta'cles or containers and hasparticular reference to such containers intended for use for dispensingmeasured quantities of bulk, granulated, or pulverulent commodities suchas sugar or the like. i

Among the objects of the invention is to provide a dispensing device ofthe nature indicated that will deliver substantially precise measuredquantities of the commodity irrespective of the Variations in themaniplulation of the device incident to the use t ereof by differentindividuals who may manipulate the container in various ways, todifferent degrees of inclination, at

various s eeds, or the like. A further object of the invention is tprovide a container for sugar that will be of a most sanitary nature,one that is practically dust-proof, and into which itwill be impossiblefor various users to insert their spoons for withdrawing sugar and alsoone that is adapted for use in either hand and when grasped from anydirection, inasmuch as the construction is perfectly symmetrical as toits vertical axis and so will deliver irrespective of the direction inwhich it may be tilted.

A still further object of the invention is to provide a construction fordispensing quantities of sugar of variable volumes according to thedesire of the management or owner and for the adjustment to be effectedin the most simple, cheap, and reliable physical manner. a V

With the foregoing and other. objects in view the invention consists inthe arrangement and combination ofparts hereinafter described andclaimed, and while the invention is not restrictedto the exact detailsof construction disclosed or suggested herein, still for the purpose ofillustrating a practical embodiment thereof reference is bad to theaccompanying drawings, in which like reference characters desi nate thesame parts in the several views, an in which Figure 1 is a verticalsectional view of a preferred-embodiment of the invention in normalupright position and with the volume adjusting device adjusted for aminimum discharge.

Fig. 2 is aview of the same mechanism inverted, one charge beingdelivered and another charge being directed toward the volume adjustingdevice. r

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary detail view correspondin to Fig. 1, but showingan adjusted position of the volume adjusting device for the discharge ofa larger quantity of-su ar. y,

Re err1n now more specifically to the drawings shows a container 10 ofany suitable composition, size, or design, but indicated as of glass andhaving a threaded open end or neck 11. Otherwise the container is solidor imperforate and hence adapted to be filled only through thethreaded'neck.

'Fitted upon and normally closing said container and neck is a top 12made preferably of sheet material such as, metal and comprising threeprincipal parts as follows which are relatively easily constructed andassembled: A discharge member or nozzle 13, a baffle member 14, and avolume adjusting member or device 15. In the usual practice of thisinvention these three parts of the top are permanently connected to oneanother and are removable as a unit from the container when the latteris being filled. The discharge member or nozzle 13 is shown as offrusto-conical form and having an outlet 16 at its upper end while thelower portion or base is inthe nature of a flange 17 having an internalor female thread for direct co-operation with the threaded neck 11.

The baflie member may beqofany suitable design but is shown as in thenature of a conical cup inverted within the nozzle and held in fixedspaced relation thereto b means of studs or s acers 13", thus provi ingan annular disc argespace18 between thenozzle and the baflie. The rim 19of the baflie is located preferably at about the plane of the unionbetween the threaded ase 17 and the tapereddischarge nozzle.

The volume adjusting device 15 may be described" broadly as comprising aflat horizontal ring, or .body portion from which there extends upwardfrom its center a cutoff flange 20 of frusto-conical form as shown andhaving its cut-off edge extended within the cup-shaped bafiie and henceabove the plane of the rim 19 and similarly equally mg downward mm thering or body portion of the volume ad'usting device is a flange portion21 provi ed with an outside,

or male thread ada ted to co-operate direct ly with the threa ed base17; The lower portion of this flange may be flangedinward,

at 22 so as to serve not only as a better means for grasping and.manipulating thevolume adjusting device for assemblage and adjustment,but 'also as a positive stop against which the edge of the neck of thecontainer is caused to abut when the top is screwed upon the container.The device assembled and adjusted as shown in Fi .,land 2 will deliver apredetermined xed'and minimum quantity of the material, the measure. ofsuch quantity being. the capacity of the space between' the rim 19 ofthe baflie, the upper portion of the vertical base, and that partof thebody of. thevolume adjusting device lying outside the downwardprojection of the rim 19 thereon, this space and measure quantity beingindicated at s in Fig. 1 and s in Fig. 3.. While that portion ofmaterial shown at s or s, Figs..1 and 3, will flow out through thenozzle at the nextturn, that portion lying between the-rim 19 and thecutofi flange will not be discharged but will flow ck again into thebafile .cup. This is wh a substantially uniform discharge is a waysobtained irrespective of the speed or. degree of inversion of thecontainer. f Furthermore, it must be remembered that in the extensiveuse of these devices in public lunch rooms, hotels, and restaurants, thesuccessive manipulations of a single device are erformed usually bydifferent persons, w 0, having different personal equations, manipulatethe device not only in diflerent directions but at different speeds andto various angles. It is to be observed also that each user leaves ameasthe next person who t1 ts the container.

.The baflie 14, as a cup, is in no sense a measuring device, and henceit has' no bearing upon the charge measured except as its rim 19 mayinfluence the charge in co-operation with the annulusor real volumeadjusting member 15..

In assemblage the cupisfixed withinthe nozzle as indicated in thefactory, and the volume adjusting device is inserted through the largeropen end of the base, being screwedlupward as far as desired toward thebaflie. When adj usted-for minimum dischargethemember 15 will be turnedsnugly up against the end of. the threadnear the tight thread sowherever the member 15 is a J usted it will remain until it ispositively.

against the flange 22, locking all parts in 7o operative position. I

' In operation, for the delivery of a measuredquantity of sugar thecontainer will be inverted or suitably inclined to cause the baffle cupto be filled substantially as 76 shown in Fig. 2, but because it is abaffle and prevents direct discharge'of the sugar none will bedischarged as a result of the first tipping or inclination of thedevice.

When, however, the container is brought 80' again to or toward erectposition a certain predetermined quantity. of the sugar will,

be caught and retained in the spaces ready for direct delivery through"the space 18 when the device is again tilted. Thism'ea'sured quantity ofsugar'caught in the measuring space will presumably always be retainedtherein after -once being supplied so that anyuseriofthe dispensingdevice will always be able to secure directly thedesired quantity upon,tilting the container;

I wish to emphasize thatasa result of extensive experience in thepractice of this device I have found that there is barely an with thevolume adjusting device in fixed adjustment, irrespective of whether thetilting is done slowly or rapidly or according.

tov the degree of inclination thereof. For

variation in the amount of sugar dispense instance,if the device istilted slowly back from the position ofFig. 2 to that ofFi'g. 1, themeasuredquantity willbe as shown injFig. 1,all at one side."If,'how'ever, the user should return the-device quickly to its erectposition, the bulk of thematerial in the cup of Fig. 2 would be returnedin bulk directly downward through the cut-otfflange 20 andso themeasured quantityof the" commodity would bethat portion of the sugar intheannular space surrounding the cut-ofi flange and all of this, orpractically all of it, would be" received directly upon the ,top

0 the volume adjusting member and be held in the form ofa ring in thespace 8, ready for discharge throughthe space 18 when the device isagain tilted for discharging. In all cases the quantity of sugardispensed willbe more uniform thanfif itwere being" dippedfrom anopenbowl by the use of spoons in the hands of i The delivery of thesugaris not only reliable as to quantity but very prom t as to 7 action,the pouring spaces being su ciently large for free flow at all times.

From Fig.3 it is the volume adjusting device 15 with respect to the rim19 of the cup the measuringspace s is accordingly enlarged whiletheaction or-mode of operation remains unchanged.

different people.

plain that by lowering R parts 15 and 17 afford therefore not only acheap and easy manner of construction and assemblage of the parts butalso a most satisfactory means for variation of the delivery capacity.

I claim:

1. A container, a discharge member attached thereto by means of threads,a bafiie member,attached to the neck, a volume adjusting device withinthe discharge member and located wholly above the container neck, saidvolume adjusting device comprising a horizontal support for the materialmeasured and having an inner upwardly directed cutolf fian'ge providinga freely open center, and a bafiie member of inverted cup format-ionlocated between the volume. ad usting device support and the upper end"of the discharge member and within the rim of which battle member theflange aforesaid projects in spaced relation, the measure of thematerial being dispensed being determined by the capacity of the spacebetween the support and the rim and outside the downward projection ofsaid rim upon said support.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

HARRY GESSLER.

